A little over three years after the national emergency was declared over the covid pandemic, Biden signed a bill officially ending the order.It appears vast swaths of the American population are done with the pandemic restrictions. The bill submitted was one of the rare ones that enjoyed any degree of bipartisan support.
A White House official downplayed the impact of the bill, saying the termination of the emergency “does not impact our ability to wind down authorities in an orderly way.”The bill to end the national emergency cleared the Senate last month in a bipartisan 68-23 vote and passed the House earlier this year with 11 Democrats crossing party lines to vote for the joint resolution.“Since Congress voted to terminate the National Emergency earlier than anticipated, the Administration has worked to expedite its wind down and provide as much notice as possible to potentially impacted individuals,” the official said, adding that the country is in a “different place” than it was in January.The administration has been winding down authorities over the past few months, the official noted.
It’s unclear what immediate effect Biden’s signature will have on American policies tied to the national emergency. However, I can almost guarantee that any measure that serves Democrats or weakens the country will be maintained for as long as practically possible.
The Justice Department has said that ending the emergency would terminate the Title 42 migration policy that allows for the rapid deportation of people who illegally cross the US-Mexico border.The Biden administration has eased enforcement of Title 42 by gradually allowing more people into the US to await asylum rulings, but thousands of migrants have still been deported each month under the policy, which would have to be replaced with a new plan to address record-high illegal crossings.Biden also invoked the national emergency last year when announcing plans just before the midterm elections to forgive up to $20,000 in federal student debt per borrower. Critics say that Biden exceeded his legal authority and the Supreme Court is reviewing that plan.
I have covered the covid pandemic from the beginning, including the news of a novel respiratory illness breaking out in Wuhan, China….two months before President Donald Trump signed the emergency order. I urged a response similar to the one used for severe flu seasons when it became apparent the infection fatality rate was not as high as originally feared.
I continued to cover the developments, as decisions were based on politics and not science. I then reported on the unintended..but foreseeable….consequences.
A new study from Johns Hopkins University confirms that lockdowns failed spectacularly to stop either the spread or resulting deaths.
Lockdowns had “little to no effect” on saving lives during the pandemic — and “should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy,” according to economists in a new meta-analysis of dozens of studies.A group led by the head of Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics analyzed studies from the first surge of the pandemic to investigate widely pushed claims that stringent restrictions would limit deaths.Instead, the meta-analysis concluded that lockdowns across the US and Europe had only “reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.”
I suspect, at this point, our political leaders and their propaganda agents in the American press will want us to forget. I have no intention of doing so.
Millions of others will also continue to remember.
Rep. Gregory Murphy is a medical doctor who now represents North Carolina’s 3rd congressional district. In his response to the end of the emergency, he stressed the need for medicine to be rooted in science and not politics.
“This is a major win for the American People. Medically speaking, the COVID Emergency has been over for months,” said Rep. Murphy. “Under the guise of COVID, President Biden and the Democrats were able to abuse emergency powers and go on a spending spree in order to prevent the American people from returning to normal. After bipartisan votes in both chambers voted to end this declaration, President Bided finally was forced to end this declaration. Medicine needs to be rooted in hard, objective science, not politics.”
The emergency order is one sentence long. The lesson from the response can also be distilled down into one sentence as well: Science policy that is not based on facts, reproducible experiments, and objective observations is destructive on a civilization-ending level.
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